{"id":180571,"date":"2026-11-14T18:37:29","date_gmt":"2026-11-14T18:37:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/?p=180571"},"modified":"2026-11-14T18:37:29","modified_gmt":"2026-11-14T18:37:29","slug":"yet-another-road-block","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2026\/11\/14\/yet-another-road-block\/","title":{"rendered":"Yet another road block"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-brown-color has-off-white-background-color has-text-color has-background has-link-color wp-elements-1 wp-block-paragraph\">So yet more medical issues have occurred so its again 5 steps forward and 3 steps back as yet another issue hits out of the blue. My sense of humour is running thin now. And my patience.<br>Oh boy, what next, a plague of frogs? I give up.  Will it ever end? Doesn&#8217;t seem as though it will.<br>I am starting to unravel a little as I write this. Somebody give me  a break.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-brown-color has-beige-background-color has-text-color has-background has-link-color wp-elements-2 wp-block-paragraph\">Well it turns out that truth is stranger than fiction after all.  But maybe now I have turned a corner finally with at least one problem.  i will not get too excited yet though as I have been caught out before. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/soundcloud%253Atracks%253A388522164&amp;color=%23ff5500&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false&amp;show_teaser=true\"><\/iframe><div style=\"font-size: 10px; color: #cccccc;line-break: anywhere;word-break: normal;overflow: hidden;white-space: nowrap;text-overflow: ellipsis; font-family: Interstate,Lucida Grande,Lucida Sans Unicode,Lucida Sans,Garuda,Verdana,Tahoma,sans-serif;font-weight: 100;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/dianastone\" title=\"Diana Stones Glasscage\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\">Diana Stones Glasscage<\/a> \u00b7 <a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/dianastone\/i-stood-in-the-dessert-and-looked-at-the-stars\" title=\"I Stood In The Desert And Looked At The Stars\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\">I Stood In The Desert And Looked At The Stars<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Today is not a comfortable day though. Aches and pains again. Maybe tomorrow will be better we hope. Today I had another blood transfusion. Kind of weird though as it&#8217;s still a very odd thing for me. Hopefully that will help things along a little.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"604\" height=\"596\" data-attachment-id=\"180579\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2026\/11\/14\/yet-another-road-block\/deandv\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/DeandV.jpg?fit=2048%2C2021&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"2048,2021\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-title=\"DeandV\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/DeandV.jpg?fit=604%2C596&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/DeandV-1024x1011.jpg?resize=604%2C596&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-180579\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/DeandV.jpg?resize=1024%2C1011&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/DeandV.jpg?resize=300%2C296&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/DeandV.jpg?resize=767%2C757&amp;ssl=1 767w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/DeandV.jpg?resize=50%2C50&amp;ssl=1 50w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/DeandV.jpg?resize=1536%2C1516&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/DeandV.jpg?w=2048&amp;ssl=1 2048w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/DeandV.jpg?w=1208 1208w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/DeandV.jpg?w=1812 1812w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 604px) 100vw, 604px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I am feeling a bit shell shocked. Even though the news is actually good mostly. I can&#8217;t really share too much information. But also I am feeling a bit rough at the time of writing. So this is a short update.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So yet more medical issues have occurred so its again 5 steps forward and 3 steps back as yet another issue hits out of the blue. My sense of humour is running thin now. And my patience.Oh boy, what next, a plague of frogs? I give up. Will it ever end? Doesn&#8217;t seem as though &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2026\/11\/14\/yet-another-road-block\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Yet another road block<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":180582,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[33,60,3,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-180571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-disabilty-and-health-news","category-glass-cage","category-musings","category-other"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6NRDR-KYr","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":10873,"url":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2015\/05\/25\/the-welfare-state-saved-me-to-need-it-isnt-a-moral-failure\/","url_meta":{"origin":180571,"position":0},"title":"The welfare state saved me. 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